Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- Tew Thompson 1
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472427229
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The book addresses the aesthetic development of British cities through an analysis of four key sites of cultural regeneration. Thompson argues that these projects are best understood as shaping urban cultural experience. Pointing to both the spectacular and the spectral qualities of the cultural venues, she documents an important moment in urban development, and she offers original theoretical advancements between Benjamin and Baudrillard, to demonstrate their continued relevance for the understanding of urban change.. She also makes an important methodological contribution with the idea of the ‘surface ethnography’ as a key method of engaging with contemporary urban change
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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